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How To Get iPhone X Style Navigation Gestures on Android

The note so-very-warmly welcomed iPhone X comes with amazing navigation gestures. While a number of Android manufacturers blatantly copied the infamous notch of the iPhone X, some copied the navigation gestures too. There is a never-ending war going on between Apple and Android, but Apple should definitely be given the fair credit wherever it deserves. When it comes to gestures, Apple definitely knows how to pull out the best gestures for its smartphones.

The iPhone X navigation gestures make it incredibly easy for the users to perform various operations. These operations include bringing up the notification panel, switching between the applications, multitasking, opening control center, searching through your phone and a lot more. If you are intrigued by the iPhone X navigation gestures, and you own an Android phone, you can still get them. You don’t have to empty your pocket in order to get the iPhone X, all you have to do is to grab the Navigation Gestures application.

The Navigation Gestures application comes from the house of XDA. The team working over XDA-Developers have wrapped up almost all the gestures of iPhone X in this one application. The best part is, this application doesn’t require root on your phone. You just have to install it, grant it some permissions using your computer and boom!

The Navigation Gestures app adds a pill to the bottom of your phone’s screen. This pill is what’s going to perform every single operation. For example, tapping the pill will take you to the home. Swiping the pill and holding it will pull up the recent applications. Swiping the pill towards left will perform the back operation and so on. All these gestures are completely customizable. You can assign your desired tasks to the pill. In fact, the size, placement and the width of the pill can be customized as well.

How To Get iPhone X Style Navigation Gestures on Android

Let’s have a look at the steps to install Navigation Gestures on any Android phone an to get iPhone X Style Navigation Gestures on Android now. So, here is how you will get iPhone X Navigation Gestures for Android.

Downloads required:

  1. Download and install Minimal ADB and Fastboot drivers on your computer.
  2. On your phone, open Google Play Store and install Navigation Gestures application.

Process:

  1. Now open the application and go through the setup. It will ask you to grant some permissions.
  2. While showing you the permission, it will show you a command to run on your computer.
  3. Open Minimal ADB and Fastboot.exe from your computer’s desktop.
  4. Enable USB Debugging mode on your phone and connect it to your computer.
  5. The phone will ask you for some permission, allow it.
  6. Now in the command window, enter the following command: adb shell pm grant com.xda.nobar android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS
  7. This command will not show any output, successful execution will show you the next line only.
  8. Disconnect your phone now. Open Navigation Gestures app again and set it up. That’s all.
    iPhone X Navigation Gesture running on Galaxy Note 8

This post was last modified on September 5, 2018 11:16 pm

Usama M

Usama is a software engineer by profession and at TechBeasts.com he uses his expertise to solve everyday consumer tech problems with his main areas of interest being Android, iOS and Windows.

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